His slider is what freaks me out. It straight up looks like it's going to hit a lefty batter and then ends up out of the zone away for a swinging strike. He has some nasty stuff, solid pickup to shore up our pen after losing Edgin. Blevins can't get righties out too like Edgin did, but getting righties out really shouldn't be a problem with all the other guys we have so knowing that Blevins can shut down tough lefties is more than enough for me to think that getting him was a huge win.

Matt Williams doesn't know how to use LOOGYs so he'd be wasted anyway. He's insisted on putting replacement LOOGY Xavier Cedeno in full-inning situations just as he did with Blevins and the results are equally bad. The only lefty that has thrived in our pen is Matt Thornton because he can also get out the righties he's put in front of.

The Mets are now 214-242 against the Philadelphia Phillies franchise. This is the 73rd shutout of the Phillies in Mets history. The last shutout was August 27, 2013, a 5-0 complete game shutout by Jonathan Niese at Citi Field.

It really pisses me off because people are booing Flores because he struggled through six games, any Mets fan who's still mad at Ruben Tejada is a child, and like him or hate him, Terry Collins is still the manager of the team and you should still be rooting for and supporting him until he gets fired.

Also, a few people booed Murphy (a vast minority though) although I'm less upset about that because at least there's a semi-valid reason.

Booing should be reserved for off the field issues with a player. Murph had semi controversial statements about the gay community he meant no harm it was just ignorance. Since Flores and tejada are just struggling or have struggled it's insane to boo someone trying their best.

When the beer throw happened live, I actually laughed, because I thought someone fell down and spilled or something accidentally and the timing was just ridiculous.

When I saw the replay and a Mets fan was clearly trying to hit a player fielding a ball with his drink during the game, I was pretty sickened. How could you possibly think it's a good idea to act with a complete disregard for civility?

I get the impression that it's less personal toward these guys and more of a "I PAID MY TICKET AND IM GUNNA VOICE MY DISPLEAZHA WITH DUH WILPONS AND DERE CHEAPNISS N U CANT STOP ME LOLOL" thing. Which makes it even more stupid. It's like they look for reasons to boo.

On TV, I heard a lot of boos for Flores. I also heard a few for Murphy and Granderson, although they were the vast minority, which kinda surprised me for Granderson. I figured if anyone would get booed, it'd be him, but maybe the modern day fans appreciate his OBP

I was there today. Also disgusted by the boos. Do you think it's possible the boos Tejada got were actually "ruubbbeee"? His "boo" was the worst of the bunch, and there's really no reason to boo him at this point. Back up ss? Come on. I dunno, just a thought.

If you think that the casual fan is the one who knows enough to know they need to boo Tejada, you are very confused.

I've been going to Mets games for years, through thick and thin, and my experience has been that when the Mets are doing better, there are fewer douchebags at the park. When they are losing only the "real" fans go. And, IME, they tend to be the ones who believe they have the right duty to boo players that haven't performed well enough.

When they are doing well, more casual fans, who are just going to have fun, show up and "root root root for the home team" because they don't know any better haven't been jaded by years of failure.

With a good NY team comes all the bad NY bandwagon fans. It's the price of rooting for a winner in the city. All those douchenozzles in Yankees gear that you've loved to hate for the last few years? Put the Mets in a pennant race and the Yankees out of contention and you're going to see all of them douching their way around the city in Harvey shirseys in a couple months. The price of success is high, unfortunately.

Same here. I was watching the Sox game with my dog in Charlies Kitchen (outdoor beer garden) at Harvard Sq. Those first few innings were glorious. I was pissed when they pulled Zimmerman, the Gnats had such momentum in finding new ways to fuck up.

So I missed the Opening Day festivities and just watched the highlight from the GDT. Did the fans really boo Duda and Flores? Poor show guys, you don't boo your players at the HOME OPENER. Hell, I'm against booing your players regardless. Don't get that shit in their heads.

Well that makes me feel a little better about the whole thing. Still don't like that Flores got booed though. Yeah, he isn't off to a great start but the season is still young and so is he. He did pretty well today too.

They were booing the fact that he's in the opening day lineup instead of a expensive big name "star" like Stephen Drew that the Post writers said the Mets needed to sign to show that the ownership is committed to winning. In other words: idiots

I missed the game today (other than the ninth), but it's very nice to see deGrom get off to such a good start this year. 2 earned in 12 1/3 is nice, and those 2 were on one crazy swing by Zimmerman (seriously that pitch was SO FAR inside).

Also great to see the bullpen pitching so well. I was worried about them a bit, but everyone out there has pitched pretty well.

I agree whole heartedly with number "3". The big difference I've noticed between ST and the regular season is that the hitters are not being as aggressive. They really seemed to be attacking that first pitch fast ball in ST and we had great production. Now in the regular season they seemed to have regressed to how they hit last season. Lets hope they get back to being aggressive.

Grandy has higher OBP than Wright and 2nd highest among every day players. I'm also afraid he's on a way to another major slump but it's too early; I'll wait 2 months before jumping on the bench Granderson bandwagon. Flamingo.

The obp is encouraging and while 1 for 16 is a bit troubling, the walks tell me he's being patient and seeing pitchers which is what I'd want my lead off bat to do. I think the hits will start coming and we know grandy is streaky. Idk how many strikeouts he has so far but from the few at bats I've managed to catch he doesn't look as bad as he did to start last year. Admittedly I haven't seen enough to be confident in my observation but I haven't been discouraged by granderson yet.

It's early, relax. Spring training has no correlation to the regular season at all. He hit a slump at the wrong time. It happens. I remember going 0-22 in high school before tearing it up and going 15-20 the next 5 games. Get back to me June 1st and if his BA doesn't start with a .2 we need to worry